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"These low-chill apples can be grown as novelty fruit in a kitchen garden, but their viability as a commercial crop is not proven... most of them are a failure," he says.

But they held that Tharpe was not entitled to an injunction or damages under the relevant statutes because she had not proven that school officials “acted with bad faith or gross misjudgment.”

Two further allegations at the first panel - that between 2019 and 2020, while off duty, he had smoked cannabis, and that he gave an untrue explanation for why he refused to take the drugs test - were not proven.

This has not proven to be the case.

"This threat is asserted and not proven, and these companies are profit-driven so it is not in their interests to sabotage our infrastructure," said Prof Giles Mohan of the Open University.